Chapter 4: Q.15 (page 283)
Construct a PDF table.
Short Answer
PDF table:
Chapter 4: Q.15 (page 283)
Construct a PDF table.
PDF table:
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Get started for freeThe literacy rate for a nation measures the proportion of people age 15 and over who can read and write. The literacy rate for women in Afghanistan is 12%. Let X = the number of Afghani women you ask until one says that she is literate.
a. What is the probability distribution of X?
b. What is the probability that you ask five women before one says she is literate?
c. What is the probability that you must ask ten women?
d. Find the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation of X.
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Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: Suppose that a group of statistics students is divided into two groups: business majors and non-business majors. There are business majors in the group and seven non-business majors in the group. A random sample of nine students is taken. We are interested in the number of business majors in the sample.
In words, define the random variable .
Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: Suppose that a group of statistics students is divided into two groups: business majors and non-business majors. There are business majors in the group and seven non-business majors in the group. A random sample of nine students is taken. We are interested in the number of business majors in the sample.
Find the standard deviation.
A lacrosse team is selecting a captain. The names of all the seniors are put into a hat, and the first three that are drawn will be the captains. The names are not replaced once they are drawn (one person cannot be two captains). You want to see if the captains all play the same position. State whether this is binomial or not and state why.
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